Search Results: Authors starting with A from Abbey Bookshop

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original red cloth, with fifty-four black and white illustrations. Written by a "Swedish masseuse and beauty culturist", this handbook covers, among many other things, massage, hair treatments, manicure, blemishes and plastic surgery. Scarce spine lightly faded, a few small light stains to the cloth

London and Glasgow: Gowans and Gray, 1925. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo., original pictorial wrappers. Scarce wrappers worn at extremities

London: The Folio Society, 1986. Second printing. Fine. Folio, original pale brown buckram, with a compass design printed in blue, slipcase, richly illustrated in colour and black and white.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1958. Uncorrected proof copy. Good +. 8vo., original orange decorated printed wrappers extremities lightly worn, joints cracking

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original brick-red cloth. Edited with textual foot-notes, index of proper names, and alphabetical glossary. ex-library copy with sticker to spine and some stamps

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Large 8vo., original red cloth. Revised with introduction and notes by R.W. Chambers. remnants of dust jacket loosely inserted, a little wear to head and tail of spine, neat ownership inscription

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1936. Eighth printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo., original blue cloth, with fourteen plates, each with two photographic reproductions. A memoir by three children, born in Paris, who travelled through Austria, Germany before and after Hitler's rise to power, Russia, England and America. spine lightly faded, small gift sticker, stamps of the American School of Paris, and ownership inscription to the front endpapers, very occasional pencil marginalia

New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce, (1947). First edition. Fine/very good. 8vo., original pale brown cloth, dust jacket. dust jacket a little worn and with a few closed tears at head of spine

Toronto: The Neewin Publishing Co., 1971. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo., original pictorial card wrappers, with illustrations in the text.

Paris: Adolphe René, 1847. First edition. Very Good +. Three volumes. 8vo., recent quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, original wrappers preserved. A collection of voyages in Asia, Europe and America. pages a little browned and foxed

Chapelle-Reanville: The Hours Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, original blue cloth spine, marbled green boards. One of 200 copies signed by the author on the colophon page, this being no. 131. The fourth book issued by The Hours Press. lower board dotted with worming, extremities lightly rubbed

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1907. First edition. Very Good. Edited with an introduction by W. Graham Robertson and numerous reproductions from Blake's pictures, many hitherto unpublished. 8vo., original red cloth. spine faded, cloth lightly stained and scuffed, interior fine

Paris: L'Art Culinaire, 1904. Second edition. Very Good +. 4to., original red cloth spine, printed boards, with numerous illustrations by Gérard Tantet and Froment. An extensive compendium of English and American recipes written for French chefs going to work in anglophone countries, who would be expected to tailor their cuisine to an English palette. The author states in the preface: "si l'Anglais ne sait pas manger, il sait du moins très bien se nourrir". head and tail of spine very lightly worn, bump to top edge of lower board

London: T. Fisher Unwin, [c. 1904]. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original pictorial brown cloth, with 15 full-page illustrations. A collection of stories based on works by Ovid, Livy and Virgil. Extremities a little rubbed and worn

Montreal: Presses de Garden City, 1939. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good +. Folio, original printed wrappers, with eight plates illustrated on both sides. With a card inscribed from the Hotel-Dieu de Quebec. One of 1060 copies. spine lightly worn at extremities

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918. Seventh impression. Very Good. 8vo., original blind-stamped blue cloth, with numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. "The purpose of this Collection is to put before children, and young people, poems which are good in themselves, and especially fitted to live, as Theocritus says, 'on the lips of the young.'" cloth marked and rubbed in places, spine dulled

Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1967). Second edition. Fine. Two volumes, 8vo., original blue cloth, with frontispieces in both volumes. Edited by H.M. Margoliouth. Lovely edition of the great English poet's work and letters.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1907. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original red cloth, top edge gilt, with four photogravure portraits & twenty-nine other reproductions. spine faded

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Very Good/fine. 8vo., original brown cloth, dust jacket. A novelistic life of Napoleon in four movements, a nod to Beethoven's Eroica symphony that he planned to dedicate to Bonaparte. ex-library copy, with stamps etc., some marks to cloth

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to., original green cloth printed with an image of the Little Prince, with the author's colour illustrations. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. An excellent copy of perhaps the most enduring and widely-read work of French children's literature. First edition, third printing. very light wear to head and tail of spine and points, some very light spots soiling